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cottager

[kot-i-jer] / ˈkɒt ɪ dʒər /
NOUN
country gentleman
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Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.

From Time Magazine Archive

That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once on a time there was a cottager who had an only son, and this lad was weakly, and hadn't much health to speak of; so he couldn't go out to work in the field.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen

Some years since the wife of a respectable cottager in my neighbourhood died in childbed.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Visit the poorest and humblest cottager, who knows nothing of theology, and cannot even repeat the creed.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle




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